What's a good D&D campaign setting for a beginning DM?

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And what's with this globe and whole known world obsession? Most games I've participated in (regardless of system) never even switched countries, much less continents, until higher levels.

Yes, just a pet obsesson. He just wants to know what the globe looks like. Of course he'll never travel beyond the Known World of whichever setting he chooses.

 

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However, take note that the FRCS is only 70 pages of crunch. Thats including races, new spells, monsters, changes to character classes, and PrCs. The other 244 pages are all fluff. Its only got 22% crunch. I think /eberon/ might be a little crunchier.

The FRCS is a very *dense* tome by the looks of it. Perhaps it has a little *too* much infomation in one hit.

 

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Eberron is crunchier. It has approximately 160 pages of crunch (half the book!)

That doesn't sound good. I'm not suprised, though. Crunch is WotC's lifeline. Why not turn it up to the max!

Are Eberron's adventures easy for a novice DM to use?

 

[Angel Tarragon]

Simply put - Greyhawk. It has very few rules modifications and you only need the Greyhawk Gazetteer in addition to the core rulebooks to play.

 

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Ten years, actually.

You won't be a getting a complete world map. At least, not for a very very long time. I should tell you that right now. However, you're not gonna need it. You get an incredibly detailed, realistic fantasy setting that is constantly being supported. The possibilities are nearly limitless.

Can't the Kenzer folk just do a simple outline of the globe's continents. Like the tiny globe map discretely in the corner of the LGG and D&D Gazetteer maps?

What percentage of crunch is in the Kalamar core setting book?

(Why aren't there more zero-crunch setting books like the LGG?)

Thanks for the info.

 

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Simply put - Greyhawk. It has very few rules modifications and you only need the Greyhawk Gazetteer in addition to the core rulebooks to play.

No, Greyhawks not appropriate because: 1) I'm running it and would nit-pick at him if he ran it; and 2) Greyhawk has a vast history . . . he'll end up wanting to track down all of it's esoteric lore (like me!). He doesn't want to do the latter, he wants something with no "strings attached".

 

[Angel Tarragon]

If you really think that then you are up a creek in a boat without a paddle. It's true - you are not going to find any campaign that does not have a rich history.

 

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If you really think that then you are up a creek in a boat without a paddle. It's true - you are not going to find any campaign that does not have a rich history.

I'm talking about *product* history. GH has a long line of products beginning from OD&D to 1E to 2E to 3E.

 

[Angel Tarragon]

In all actuality Greyhawk is the one campaign that does not have that many sourcebooks. The product history of Greyhawk is sparse compared to any other core DnD world.

 

[Angel Tarragon]

Eberron is brand spankin' nw however, so it actually only has two (or is it three) books so far. Not counting Monster Manual III.